Show Ai i 0 on Copy for tor This Department Supplied by National Headquarters of ct the American Legion Lelon TAKEN UNDER LEGIONS LEGION'S WING More French Orphans Added to List to Receive Aid From Potts Posts and Individuals IndIvidual Adopted Adoptee During Week Ending July 10 1920 Sergt Floyd Fiord C C. C Holub post Milwaukee Wt Nis Wis 1 I IStar Star Post Poet No 17 Jamesburg N. N Jl Member Milton Post poat Milton Mass Previously Adopted 6 6 Total 9 8 Three more French war orphans hav have been taken under the Legions Legion's win wing by contributions of of 75 15 each from posts posta and an nn Individual member of ot another as listed above who as asked ed that his liis name be withheld The anonymous donor In his letter transmitting a a. check which will care for one of ot the fatherless waifs walts a year under the Legion plan says he lie would woul t be glad to have the privilege of ot being an adopted father tather another year If necessary essary The New Jersey post forwarded Its contribution to the Legions Legion's national treasurer Robert Hobert H. H Tyndall through Thomas state state adjutant and J expresses no preference as to the sex pr r age age- of ot Its Tits prospective I R. R L. L Jones adjutant of the Milwaukee Milwaukee 1 Mil Mil- waukee post writes I At the last meeting of the post the membership unanimously decided to adopt a little French orphan and would prefer a n little girl I am Instructed instructed In in- to request of you If possible I the little girls girl's picture and also her name and address In order that we may keep In touch with her from time timeto to time Luckily there is a member of ot our post who Is able to read and write French and therefore will have no trouble In corresponding with the little girl girt Advices from France are that children the keenest sufferers In the war the distresses distresses' of ot the country country country coun coun- try are threatened with actual want Many were once the wards of ot A. A E. E F. F outfits ou tilts Posts of the Legion Le lon or individual members or friends may adopt a French war orphan for at least one year ear contributing seventy seventy five five dollars Jor the first years year's support The mascots mascots mascots mas mas- cots assigned will be either orphans or orthe orthe orthe the children of ot permanently disabled French veterans All of ot the money contributed will go goto goto goto to the child The Red Cross bears all aU expenses of administration GIVES ACRE TO KANSAS POST Elgin Chapter Red Cross Makes Valuable Donation In Heart of Oil Fields An acre of ground at Elgin Kan donated by Mrs Irs Margaret Gunn pres pres- dent of the I Elgin chapter of ot the American Red Cross Cros to the Luther S. S Hankinson post ot of the Legion may mayI I prove an unusual asset and make the post the most Independent financially financial financial- ly of any in the Legion The land Is In the heart henrt of the Kansas Kangas oil fields fields' Wells have shot up all around It and nd by finking a shaft near the clubhouse It way may be that the lucky Legionnaires will find themselves In pos possession of something mighty similar to a gold mine The post is Js the first one In Kansas i to actually finance build and equip It Its own clubhouse It has only r I r J 1 a MRS MARGARET GUNN H I i members but State Adjutant Frank FrankI I E. E Samuel corroborates Its claim for tor fora a Il place on the tile Roll of Honor lIonor Class A i since its members have enrolled all allbut allbut but two t service ex-service persons I In the enire enI en en- I ire Jre community I The clubhouse was built barracks fashion at a cost of ot only and contains a kitchen dining room billiard bil bil- Hard Bard reading rending and writing room a gymnasium and a dance hall The post has a 11 thriving unit of the women's auxiliary many of the members members mem memo bers of or which donned the garb of ot Campfire girls and participated In he be recent Decoration day ceremonies of Uio he community j 1 Si MILLER DID GOOD SERVICE Chairman of National Legislative 4 Committee Who Has Resigned Proved Value to Legion rz The recently announced retirement nt r of or Thomas V. W. Miller of Delaware a 3 as i. i chairman of the National legislative committee of the American Legion gives ghe an nn opportunity of recounting the a efforts by which one Individual has done much to make the Legion what It Is today r f a. a N Mr Miller served as chairman of the committee for tor a full year It was M I under his direction th that t such generous generous results were obtained as ns the passage of ot VIe the Sweet and Darrow bills for tor betterment betterment betterment bet bet- of ot the condition of the disabled disabled disabled dis dis- s ex-s service ex-service men and such marked progress was made In placing so thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- before congress the claims of ot all aU service ex-service men for tor Just tion All during last summer and autumn Mr Miller handled alone all aU Legion legislative matters at Washing Washing- fP f i j r i j j Vii h s f J i Jil U JI m n i. i t. t l 2 iI THOMAS W. W MILLER ton anc and before the Minneapolis ron ron- on Pi he had succeeded In obtaining from congress an Incorporation of b I the American Legon In Septem September er q he was joined b by the other others members of ot the legislative committee pr provided provided for by br the convel convention v Because of th th pressure of his private private vate business v Is the reason for tor Mr Millers Miller's retirement from this highly Important Legion post he placed his 1 resignation in the hands of Mr DOlier DOl l' l ller ier ler the national commander as early as last spring At that time however howen y ylie J he lie was prevailed upon to remain at Itt athis 1 his post until congress adjourned b because because be be- cause his committee was in the midst of Its fight Or far legislation for tor the disabled disabled dis dis- t a and d for congressional consideration considers considers- ern- ern tion of- of the four fold optional plan of fj adjusted compensation t John Thomas Taylor of Washington 1 D D. C. C a member of the committee since November ember has been appointed chairman to fill out Mr Millers Miller's un- un expired term tenn i Although Mr Miller is only Thirty Thirty- three years old he has an unusual background of ot army service and experience ex ex- experience r In public life He lIe enlisted In Inthe Jt the army as a private and came out of f It a lieutenant colonel Although he had attended the tile first Plattsburg Platt bur 4 f school he was unable to obtain admission sion slon to the first officers officers' training camp after atter war was declared because of oY o a ph physical handicap lIe He was was- wasa a fir first t lieutenant before going overseas with the One Hundred and Fourteenth Infantry Infantry In In- wa S fantry of the Twenty-Ninth Twenty division with which he served In France He a 1 first became conspicuous In public life Ufe as the youngest member of the Sixty Sixty- i Fourth congress having been elected at the age of twenty seven Before J that he had been secretary of the state of Delaware at twenty HOT ON BERGDOLL'S TRAIL Effort Effort Effort Will Will WillBe Be Made Mado to Have e AJ Alleged i Slackers Slacker's Aero Pilots Pilot's cate Bate Cancelled v I Grover Cleveland Clevelan 1 Bergdoll arch arch- arci t r Slacker lacker and fugitive from justice for j whose apprehension rewards aggregatIng j Ing lug have been offered 1 holds J J pilot c certificate No Ao In the Aero Club of America and f fonce for tor Its cancellation will be made at 1 t tonce I once it was announced at Legion national na- na na- na 1 headquarters recently ili The first Intimation that Bergdoll i I held a license In the club was con con- S tamed In a letter to Lemuel Bolles 1 v national adjutant of the Le Legion lon from Kenneth W. W Haltz a member of Frank Frank L s I Luke Jr post American Legion of or r J Phoenix Ariz j s Mr Bolles has written in part as as' follows I have no hesitancy In expressing my conviction that as soon as t the facts become public there will be an overwhelming sentiment among Legion members and the public generally for tor forthe the cancellation of ot Bergdoll's JJ cate rate with the least delay Person Personally Per- Per f 1 son ally I consider his retention of ot the certificate under present circum r I fj stances would constitute a grave insult in in- suit sult to the tho memory of ot our heroic j ator comrades who gave their lives to uphold the honor of the flag which a Bergdoll and his kind would delight In hi f a 91 i desecrating I trust national headquarters wills wills- be advised shortly Bergdoll's name has been stricken from the rolls roils of your yom estimable organization and that one more substantial black mark has been chalked up against this flits slackers slacker's name j L T |